This was the first cookie recipe that my mother trusted me to bake on my own when I was a child. It was one of my favorites to make every holiday season!
Ingredients:
1 cup shortening (or margarine)
1 1/2 cup sugar (1 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup white sugar)
2 eggs
2 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp cinnamon
cinnamon & sugar mixture
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375°F if using a light cookie sheet (or 350°F if using a dark sheet). Spray cooking spray on the cookie sheet and set aside.
In a large pot, melt 1 cup butter (1 cup = 2 sticks) with stove at 3 or 4.
Remove pot from heat.
Stir in sugar. I usually measure the brown sugar (1 cup) in a tall measuring cup, using a spoon to push down the brown sugar. Then add the white sugar on top, which should be ½ cup so that the total amount of sugar is at the 1 ½ cup line.
Add in baking soda, salt, vanilla, cinnamon, and eggs. Stir.
Finally stir in flour.
Using a small spoon, pick up cookie dough and roll around in your hands into a ball. Put the dough on the cookie sheet and then slightly press down to flatten it somewhat.
Bake in oven for 3-4 minutes. Open up the oven, pull out the cookie sheet, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar mixture on top of the cookies. Put cookie sheet back in oven and continue baking for 2-3 more minutes. Should bake for a total of 8 minutes. (Bake for approximately 6-7 minutes if it's on a dark cookie sheet.) Remove the cookies from the oven when the edges turn a golden brown.
Pull out cookie sheet and let cookies set on pot holders for a minute or two. Then remove the cookies with a spatula on to the foil, to finish cooling.
Now add more cookie dough on to the cookie sheet and do the same thing as before.
Eat and enjoy!
